INTRODUCTION
Having a security operations center (SOC) is no longer a privilege of large organizations. With growing cyber attacks and a changing technology landscape, all companies are now beginning to understand the risks and consequences of cyber attacks. All companies, irrespective of their size, that handle critical client data or payment details, or are adopting digital transformation, are also considering building centralized security operations.
Many current solutions are not architected for today’s – or tomorrow’s – demands:
• Legacy on-premise security tools require powerful hardware and extensive maintenance that make
them expensive to operate.
• Storage and compute needs increase dramatically during an incident, which is difficult for an on premise footprint to accommodate.
• The move to the cloud has enabled a new degree of enterprise scale-out, and with the explosion of
cloud-born data, legacy Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms and security
tools are less and less able to cope with the demand.
• IT and OT are on a path toward convergence; old systems that supported industrial control processes
(and other specialized applications) are quickly being replaced. Consequently, this presents new
vulnerabilities and higher levels of risk.
Let’s have a more in-depth look at some of what SOCs are struggling with today, and how a Smarter SOC
would address these issues.
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